Boy are we behind

Location: Big Major Spot, Exumas
Position: N24 11.349 W076 27.611

Sorry. We were waiting for something weird and wonderful to happen so we could Khroniclize it. We’re still waiting, so in the meantime you’ll just have to be content with a travelogue. It’s not that we haven’t been having a good time; we just haven’t been really motivated to write anything new or whacky for a while. (Hoo boy – we can feel the shoe getting ready to drop with that statement).
Now let’s see…. we last left you at the Glass Window in Eleuthera. Jeez, that was over two weeks ago…
We worked our way down the beautiful island of Eleuthera, spending a lovely day at Alabaster Bay (N25 15.602 W076 19.263). We walked across the island - about a mile - to the Atlantic side and ‘the Pink Beach’. We decided calling it pink was definitely pushing it a bit – you know how "creative" those marketing types can be. If you looked at the sand really closely you could see little specs of pink, we assume from the coral. However, the sand (while only just barely pink and only if you cocked your head just so – did we mention that already?) was very soft underfoot and we enjoyed a nice long walk along the "calling it pink is really generous" beach.
Our next stop was Rock Sound near the south end of the island (N24 51.835 W076 09.756). We were here last year, it being one of only a few good harbours on Eleuthera with good protection from west winds. Rock Sound is shaped sort of like a big upside down "G". We sat out a cold front here, doing the "Rock Sound Samba", moving from the south to the east, over to the west and then back to the east again to avoid the worst of the winds. We enjoyed the town as much as our previous visit and attended the Friday night fish fry with the locals on the beach.
One day six of us hitch-hiked up to Tarpum Bay to see a local dog show. Most of the entrants were the local Bahamian dogs called "potcakes", crossbred dogs with a great personality. Our first pick in the children’s division (picked by us before competition started, we might add) took Best In Show. The highlight of the day was that we got rides both ways from police cars!
After another front we crossed east over Exuma Sound to the Exumas. This was our favourite chain of islands last year and we are really glad to be back. We have been here for 10 days and have enjoyed seeing some new islands along with several of our favorite stops from last year.
Two of our new favorites (we’re hoping to spend more time at both of them this year) are Shroud Cay and Hawksbill Cay. We spent our first two days at Shroud Cay. We took a couple of long walks along the trails and beaches and dinghied up a creek through the mangroves all the way to the ocean side of the island.
This was followed by a night at Hawksbill Cay, arguably one of the prettiest cays in the Bahamas. We’re sure we’ll be telling you more about Hawksbill and Shroud as we’re definitely going back to both of these beautiful places for longer stays!
With front after front after front rolling through, we’ve had plenty of northerly wind since we arrived in the Bahamas, making it a little cooler than usual. Combined with the higher winds and unpleasant sea conditions, this means we haven’t got to swim and snorkel as much as we’d like. The good part, however, is that we’ve got in a lot more sailing than last year. That being said, we’ve also been spending a lot of time at anchor on the boat waiting out blustery winds. We’re still having a really lovely time, hanging out with old friends, making new ones, walking, and when we’ve been stuck on the boat, reading and catching up on the never quite done list of boat jobs.
Playing catch up,